Amy Hood Quotes

There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists.

I'm using the success I've had to help other people shine.

I think that's my goal as time goes on, is to just try and pay it forward.

When I was at the top, my mother was helping other girls. I thought it was a beautiful gesture and that I should continue it in her name.

I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing to be able to adopt a child from Naples. I could give someone the opportunity I had. I would love to give back in that way and pay it forward.

Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

I love creating opportunities for people. I think it's my orphan mentality.

Everyone always helped me out growing up, and everyone now supports me Sunday. So whenever there's a chance to give back, to the community, to the less fortunate kids so they have the opportunity to gain the most potential they can in their life to be success, it's always good to do.

Leadership involves not so much marching gloriously at the head of a parade as paying quietly for the parade permit and the cleanup afterward. Leading the world means acting not as its Commander-In-Chief but as its concierge.

Whoever can, should.

I just want to give back and kind of be a resource for younger generations.

That would be great if I could be a role model or inspiration to those who have been in my shoes before.

You want to help people and make the world a better place in whatever way you can. I've tried to share the things I've learned, and for me it really is all about being a role model.

Helping people, moreover those coming from where you grew up, this is the most important. Not everyone can succeed, but at least you can to act for them.

I caught the mentorship bug when I was Miss California U.S.A. and volunteered to mentor for a brand new program called 'Who's Your Hero.' I literally fell in love with the impact it all has, not only on the girls but on myself - giving back is such a powerful thing.

The youth is the future, and anything I can do to give to them, I'll do it.

No matter how successful you get, always send the elevator back down.

Leadership is neither a rank nor a title. It is a choice. The choice to provide care and protection for those for whom we are responsible.

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.